Winston Churchill World Quotations

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Without ships, we cannot live.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their propaganda machinery. If words could kill, we shall be dead already.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.